Jan 26 (2:40pm, 7:30pm)

Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Fran, who likes to think about dying, makes the new guy at work laugh, which leads to dating and more. Now the only thing standing in their way is Fran herself.

Jan 26 (8:15pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Published in 2016, Dr. Kendi's National Book Award winner chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history.

Jan 26 (7pm) - Part of Iranian Film Fest

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

In downtown Tehran, Farzaneh, a young driving instructor, spots her husband, Jalal, walking into a woman's apartment. When she confronts him, Jalal claims he was out of town for work. He decides to check out the building for himself. There, he meets a woman who is the spitting image of Farzaneh. Her name is Bita. Stunned, the two compare family photos: Bita's husband also looks identical to Jalal.

Jan 26 (7pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

A sculptor preparing to open a new show tries to work amidst the daily dramas of family and friends.

Jan 26 (6:50pm), Jan 27 (6:50pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Seven-year-old Sol is spending the day at her grandfather's home, for a surprise party for Sol's father, Tonatiuh. As daylight fades, Sol comes to understand that her world is about to change dramatically.

Jan 27 (6:30pm) Part of Iranian Film Fest

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Detective Babak Hafizi is being interrogated by the secret police. Everything began on January 23, 1965, the day after the Prime Minister was shot in front of Parliament. Hafizi was ordered to investigate the suspicious suicide of an exiled political prisoner on the remote island of Qeshm in the Persian Gulf. In an abandoned ship next to an ancient cemetery in the desert, Hafizi stumbles upon an even bigger mystery.

Jan 27 (3pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

Focuses on five hospitals in northern Paris neighborhoods. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others.

Jan 28 (2:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Three teenagers from the industrial part of Los Angeles try to form a punk rock band in Hollywood, in this short film by renowned artist Raymond Pettibon.

Jan 28 (4:30pm) Part of Iranian Film Fest

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

A man with his arm in a cast who thus resembles Napoleon and a well-dressed woman are making their way through a war-torn mountainous region in an SUV. The boot of the car contains plastic bags filled with money to distribute to the needy people they encounter on their journey.

Jan 29 (6pm)

Manhattan Neighborhood Network (515 West 38th Street, 3rd Floor, Manhattan)

Set in Paris, this seductive drama tells the story of Tomas and Martin, a gay couple whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas begins a passionate affair with Agathe, a younger woman he meets after completing his latest film.

Jan 31 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

The film explores the elemental phenomenon of sound by weaving together 32 specific sound explorations into a cinematic meditation on the power of sound to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us.

Feb 1 (7pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Blvd, Manhattan)

A STILL SMALL VOICE follows Mati, a chaplain completing a year-long hospital residency, as she learns to provide spiritual care to people confronting profound life changes. Through Mati's experiences with her patients, her struggle with professional burnout, and her own spiritual questioning, we gain new perspectives on how meaningful connection can be and how painful its absence is.

Feb 1 (8pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

The tale of five adolescent boys enamored by the arts but drawn to crime and transgression. After committing a brutal crime aided by Trevor, a deity of chaos, they're punished to board a boat with a captain hell-bent on taming them.

Feb 1 (8:30pm), Feb 2 (8:30pm), Feb 3 (2:55pm Director only)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up in what should be the best summer of their lives. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery. Captured with luminous visuals and a pitch-perfect soundtrack, Manning Walker's directorial debut paints a painfully familiar portrait of young adulthood, and how first sexual experiences should – or shouldn't – play out.

Feb 1 (7pm SOLD OUT), Feb 2 (7pm), Feb 3 (7pm)

Alamo Drafthouse - Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up in what should be the best summer of their lives. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery. Captured with luminous visuals and a pitch-perfect soundtrack, Manning Walker's directorial debut paints a painfully familiar portrait of young adulthood, and how first sexual experiences should – or shouldn't – play out.

Feb 2 (7:15pm), Feb 3 (7:15pm), Feb 4 (5pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Aleksei is a young Belarusian on the run from a past he must bury. In a form of Faustian pact, he becomes a member of the French Foreign Legion in exchange for the promise of French citizenship. Far away, in the Niger Delta, Jomo is a revolutionary activist, engaged in armed struggle to defend his community. Aleksei is a soldier, Jomo a guerrilla fighter. Because of one more senseless war, their destinies will intertwine.

Feb 4 (5:45pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

A domestic accident causes a quiet and simple man to undergo drastic personality changes which will takes him to New York's underground nightclubs.

Feb 4 (5:45pm)

Alamo Drafthouse - Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

Hellhound Rainer roams the abyss, following Conann in each phase of her life, from childhood as a slave to Sanja through to her accession as queen.

Feb 5 (7:15pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

NoBudge is happy to present a new program of twelve short films from a group of emerging indie filmmakers mostly based in New York. This edition explores a range of unusual relationships and questionable behavior that finds its characters in modes of scheming and rationalizing. A mix of drama, comedy, and animation, the program moves between naturalistic, strange, absurd, and provocative. Eight of the films are premieres and each director will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A and Afterparty.

Feb 7 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Adventurous and bold mother of two, Penelope, struggles to strike the balance between her artistic aspirations and motherly responsibilities in this playful look at modern-day motherhood and the difficulties families face everyday.

Feb 7 (6:30pm)

Bronx Documentary Center (614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx)

Marty, a devoted South Bronx resident who advocates for social justice and community improvement, is an inspiration and a guiding force, motivating others to take action. Actively participating in police meetings, organizing rallies, and making appearances on television programs, Marty has emerged as an amplified voice for a historically marginalized community.

Feb 8 (7pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Blvd, Manhattan)

In one of the poorest nations on earth, the Central African Republic, native sand diver Thomas Boa and construction manager Jianmin Luan, a Chinese national, accept that struggle and risk are the price of tomorrow's rest and reward: both are prepared to "Eat Bitter." The eye-opening documentary raises the age-old question of what we are prepared to sacrifice for a better tomorrow, without a promise that it will ever arrive.

Feb 9 (6:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

In December 1969, legendary jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk ended his European concert tour with a performance at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. Before the show, he was invited to appear on a French television program to perform and answer questions in an intimate setting. Using newly discovered footage from this recording, director Gomis reveals the disconnect between Monk and his interviewer, Henri Renaud, whose unwittingly trivializing approach conveys the casual racism and exploitation prevalent in the music industry at large.

Feb 10 (2pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Félicité, free and proud, is a singer in the evenings in a bar in Kinshasa. Her life changes when her 14-year-old son is the victim of a motorcycle accident. To save him, she begins a frantic race through the streets of an electric Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams.

Feb 10 (5:15pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Satché is about to die. He decides to make his last day on this world the day of his life.

Feb 15 (9:30pm)

Nitehawk Cinema - Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

In this monster anthology, a man's mistress is trapped by his gun-wielding wife, who subjects her to two tales as a twisted form of revenge. In the first, a would-be brothel owner and crew face off against a puritanical mayor with a mysterious box housing an ancient creature he uses as punishment. In the second, a woman's nightmares about her abusive husband slowly come to life as she tries to escape the real monster growing inside him.

Feb 16 (7:30pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

A father takes his estranged daughter on a road trip in an effort to get her out of trouble. Along the way, they meet all types of strangers, as their strained relationship is put to the test.

Feb 16 (7pm), Feb 17 (7pm)

Firehouse DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

The Arc of Oblivion explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Set against the backdrop of the filmmaker's quixotic quest to build an ark in a field in Maine, the film heads far afield – to salt mines in the Alps, fjords in the Arctic, and ancient libraries in the Sahara – to illuminate the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory.

Feb 16 (8:30pm), Feb 17 (6pm), Feb 18 (7:10pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Takesue turns her camera on tourists and travellers in Laos, observing how they react and respond to the local populations while also providing the opportunity for viewers to reflect on our own roles as observers in everyday life.

Feb 18 (2:15pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Workaholic scientist Jeff Peters invents a human-like android named Ulysses, a near-perfect replica of himself with the ability to learn how to mimic and reciprocate human emotion. Unfortunately, the misanthropic Peters doesn't care for other people himself, so he brings in sassy public relations expert Frankie Stone to teach Ulysses how to schmooze so that Congress will fund his research. Unexpectedly, Frankie and Ulysses find themselves falling in love.

Feb 18 (7:30pm)

Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)

New York Story - In this autobiographical short film, Loulou looks for editing work in New York before marrying a journalist, Sid. But, quickly growing bored, she tells her husband about her desire to have an affair with somebody else.

Hotel New York - An expanded version of the short, New York Story, in which we first see the arrival of the Loulou character in the big city, sharing a Soho apartment with three roommates, getting work as a film editor, and showing her previous movie Deux Fois at the Museum of Modern Art.

Feb 20 (8pm)

Alamo Drafthouse - Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

Lennon, a ranger with an aching desire to rid herself of the past, investigates a mystery in the dangerous woods with a long history of disappearances. As she descends further and further into the sinister forest, the more mysteries arise, the more lines between reality and nightmares blur, and the tress once again become a space where no one can hear scream.

Feb 24 (7pm)

Anthology Archives (32 Second Avenue, Manhattan)

Follows a disenchanted American girl, Gina Lee, who impulsively travels to Vienna, the imperial city on the Danube. Quickly slipping into discreet yet decadent dalliances at Cafe Central and at the notorious Hotel Orient, she becomes embroiled in an intrigue to uncover buried Nazi plunder.

Feb 28 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

A slapstick epic about a frostbitten battle between Jean Kayak and diabolical beavers–hundreds of them–who stand between him and survival.  In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become the greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.